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Joe Gibbs Racing’s new pit-stop choreography made its debut at Richmond. How big of an advantage does it provide? […]
Joe Gibbs Racing’s new pit-stop choreography made its debut at Richmond. How big of an advantage does it provide? […]
The 2021 Fall Richmond Race Report highlights the role of penalties — of which there were more at this race than any other this season. […]
The 2021 Fall Richmond Preview looks at who’s good — and when. And those are two different things. […]
NASCAR modified the 2021 Spring Richmond race stages to avoid long green-flag runs at the end. The deciding factor was Kevin Harvick’s spin. […]
NASCAR wants to cut costs for teams by developing a rules package that, with minimal tweaking, provides good racing at any track. The 2019 rules package met with mixed results. Races were mostly better at […]
You Never Forget Your First One My first car was a greenish-brown 1969 Buick LeSabre with a 123-inch wheel base and a 230-horsepower two-barrel V-8. That puppy weighed about 4200 lbs and taught me everything […]
OK, so ‘monozone’ is just a fancy way of saying it’s the old tire. It’s all in the branding, isn’t it? Goodyear has been experimenting with multi-zone tires since last year. Multizone tires attempt to […]
We’ve heard a lot, especially this week at Richmond, about tire wear. A lot of right front tires were wearing excessively. As seems to be usual at this point, teams would like Goodyear to use a stronger tire and Goodyear would like teams to dial back their setups, especially their camber. […]
Dover is a fascinating track – twenty-four degrees of banking, but only a mile in length. A student approached me with a question: Higher-banked tracks generate higher centripetal forces – so why doesn’t the track […]
Sigh. So instead of talking about a couple great races this week, we’re focusing on restarts. Again. Everyone, from pundits to drivers, is questioning NASCAR’s decisions to not call penalties on the critical restarts of […]
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